Strategic Advocacy Advisor for Social Impact

Tides Foundation; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Tides Advocacy seeks an Advisor to provide a wide range of client management and strategic support for the Advocacy team. A successful candidate will work as an integral part of the Tides Advocacy team providing excellent client advising.

This role will collaborate within the Tides Advocacy team and across departments regarding communications, human resources, operations and finance, event planning, and systems implementation. This role is an exempt position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 2-3 years in strategic advising, research, evaluation, consulting, capacity building, or fiscal sponsorship work (preferred).
• Core values rooted in social justice, racial equity, and human rights.
• Expertise in criminal justice to support movement builders and people of color led organizations.
• Understanding of systemic inequities and inequality within U.S. institutions and policies.
• Experience with progressive advocacy and political organizations.
• Successful experience working within diverse populations.
• Demonstrated experience with clear written and verbal communications.
• Demonstrated experience in adjusting and anticipating needs of executives and clients.
• Proficiency with MS Office, Google Drive and Salesforce, Fluxx and NetSuite, preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage a mixed client portfolio of grantmaking entities and fiscally sponsored organizations in the advocacy and political space.
• Provide high-level strategic, financial, and organizational guidance to grantmaking entities and organizations for social impact and mission success.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with managers and staff, Tides HR team, and key stakeholders across Tides.
• Deliver high quality service as the single point of contact for clients, ensuring a coordinated and efficient sharing of data, including client communications, systems support, and meetings.
• Leverage and deepen expertise to curate relationships and knowledge in a specific issue area and serve as a lead of a project portfolio.
• Work collaboratively with team members and across departments to address financial and grant management, legal and risk compliance, human resources, and event support for clients.
• Support operational, evaluative, and strategic efforts for continuous improvement.
• Cultivate relationships with individual, foundation, and corporate funding partners.

Skills

Client management

Strategic advising

Cross-department collaboration

Relationship building

Communications

Project coordination

Fundraising support

Data sharing coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree

2–3 years strategic advising

Social justice focus

Tools

MS Office

Google Drive

Salesforce

Fluxx

NetSuite

Job description

Tides Advocacy seeks an Advisor to provide a wide range of client management and strategic support for the Advocacy team. A successful candidate will work as an integral part of the Tides Advocacy team providing excellent client advising.

This role will collaborate within the Tides Advocacy team and across departments regarding communications, human resources, operations and finance, event planning, and systems implementation. This role is an exempt position.